Many community organizations, foundations and businesses offer scholarships. Start your research early by browsing the scholarship directories and using the free search engines on the web. Also, contact the personnel offices of companies in your area or where your parents work to see if they offer scholarships. Scholarship leads may also be listed in magazines or on web sites related to your interests or skills.
Individual Scholarships
www.soroptimist.org: The Soroptimist International of Pomona/Claremont is offering the Women's Opportunity Award of $1,500 to women who have primary financial responsibility in their family unit, attend or have been accepted to an undergraduate degree program and have financial need. Deadline: December 15, 2009
www.foreclosure.com/education/scholarship/index.html: The Foreclosure.com Scholarship Program is offering a $5,000 and a $1,000 scholarship to the best essays entitled "How to Solve the Foreclosure Crisis." Deadline: December 21, 2009
www.scholarshipamerica.org/talbotswomen: The Talbots Charitable Foundation, in keeping with its long-standing tradition of helping women succeed, is proud to present the 2010 Talbots Scholarship Foundation and the inaugural Nancy Talbot Scholarship Award for perseverance and ingenuity. This program empowers women to enrich themselves through learning and achieve a college education later in life. Deadline: January 2, 2010
www.ocmensa.org: The American Mensa Education and Research Foundation is offering several scholarships ranging from $300 to $1,000 to students enrolled for the 2010-2011 academic year and residing in the area of a local Mensa Group. Deadline: January 15, 2010
http://www.krellinst.org/csgf: The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship is open to full-time students who are planning to engage on an uninterrupted study toward a PhD degree in scientific or engineering disciplines with an emphasis in high-performance computing. Areas include, but are not limited to Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Astronomy, Biomedical Applications and Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Computational fluid dynamics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Oceanography, or Physics. Deadline: January 15, 2010
www.aws.org/foundation: The American Welding Society (AWS) offers three different scholarship programs: The District Scholarship Program, which is open to students pursuing a welding-related career; the National Scholarship Program, which contains individual scholarships each worth a minimum of $2,500 annually; and the International Scholarship Program, which is open to international students pursuing a degree in a welding-related field. In addition. Deadline: March 2010
www.chssc.org: The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California is offering a $1,000 David and Pearl Louie Scholarship to one undergraduate student and to one graduate student with a minimum GPA of 3.0. Deadline: March 26, 2010
www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/studentloans/marketing.cfm: US Bank is offering forty, $1,000 scholarships to high school students and current college freshmen, sophomores or juniors who will be enrolled by September 2010 at an eligible four-year college or university. Deadline: March 31, 2010
www.degreedirectory.org/pages/business_scholarship.html: DegreeDirectory is offering a $1,000 scholarship for students pursuing business related majors. Deadline: April 1, 2010
www.goarmy.com/amedd/hpsp.jsp: The Health Professions Scholarship Program offers full tuition for any accredited medical, dental, veterinary, psychology or optometry program, plus a generous monthly stipend of more than $1,900. For more information, contact Johnny.Nguyen@usarec.army.mil
www.ScholarshipPoints.com: Earn points completing online activities then redeem them for entries to monthly $1,000 scholarship drawings.
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